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DEMOCRACY 


AGAINST 

AUTOCRACY 

AND 

SOCIALISM 


By 

GEORGE WILSON TEITSWORTH 

II 

OF THE 

MINNESOTA BAR 


Author of 


“BACK TO SLAVERY” 

OR 

“FALLACY OF SOCIALISM” 

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PRESS OF 

AUGSBURG PUBLISHING HOUSE 

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 






COPYRIGHT 

1918 


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NOV 12 1918 

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As the Red Cross is one of the most 
effective expressions of the vital princi¬ 
ples herein contended for, this book is 
respectfully dedicated to that institution 




THE BEAST 


Minneapolis Tribune, 2-3, 1918. 








PREFACE 


HIS contribution to the great mass of 



writings, already resulting from and 
growing out of the World War, was un¬ 
dertaken, primarily, for the purpose of 
making more concrete and definite, such 
study of the problems involved in the 
struggle, as the author has been able to 
give, and, if possible, to arrive at satis¬ 
factory conclusions regarding the same. 

By the study of both sides of the con¬ 
flict, as from the determinate view points 
of each, and the attempt to state, in plain 
terms, as fully and fairly as understood, 
the controlling principles and motives in¬ 
volved, one may at least satisfy, in large 
measure, his own mind as to the truth. 

The subject, with all it involves, is so 


6 


Democracy vs. 

vital and far reaching that it should com¬ 
mand the attention of every citizen, and 
the best talent and greatest effort and 
patriotic devotion. 

If the results of this effort afford the 
reader as much light on the merits of the 
contest as the writer has gained by the 
effort, he will feel amply paid therefor. 

Grateful acknowledgment is made for 
help found in many books, writings and 
addresses, such as: 

Hegel’s “Philosophy of History”, 
Sabatier’s “Religions of Authority”, 
Thompson’s “Brain and Personality”, 
Wythe’s “Animal and Vegetable Biol¬ 
ogy”, 

Socialistic Writings from Carl Marx’ 
“Capital” down to Trotzky’s “The Bol- 
sheviki and World Peace”, 

Wayland’s “Appeal to Reason”, 
Russell’s “Rising of the Many”, 

Hunt’s “Poverty”, 


7 


Autocracy and Socialism 

London, Sinclair and many others; 
Nietsche’s “Will to Power”, 
Treitschke’s “Politics”, 

Bernhardi’s “Germany and the Next 
War”, 

Meineke’s “German Uprising”, 
Lehman’s “German God”, 

Rump’s “War Devotions”, 

Archer’s “Gems (?) of German 
Thought”, 

Larned’s “History for Ready Reference 
and Topical Reading”, 

Larned’s “Seventy Centuries”, 
Johnson’s “Universal Cyclopaedia”, 
“Encyclopaedia Britannica”, 

Nelson’s “Encyclopaedia”, 

Morry’s “American Inventions and In¬ 
ventors”, 

James’ “Pragmatism,” 

Fosdick’s “Meaning of Prayer”, 

The Outlook, over 20 years (Vol. 55 
to 96 Bound), 


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Democracy vs. 

Hillis’ Addresses, 

Wister’s “Pentecost of Calamity”, 
Wilson’s “Messages and Addresses”, 
Robertson’s “Briton vs. Germany”, 
Gerhard’s “My Four Years in Ger¬ 
many”, 

Van Dyke’s “Fighting for Peace”, and 
many others; but most important of all, 
The Bible, “The Book of Books.” 

Following somewhat the order of 
legal procedure, it is probably too soon 
correctly to draw all the findings of fact 
and conclusions of law in this great case, 
but the careful readers and students of the 
times will agree: That there is such a 
thing or condition as national insanity. 
That, like individual insanity, national in¬ 
sanity may be traced to definite causes, 
and be successfully treated. That in its 
treatment, the first requisite is the control 
and guard of the insane, by force if neces¬ 
sary. Then to find and remove the cause. 


Autocracy and Socialism 9 

That the facts in this case clearly in¬ 
dicate that, by hereditary tendencies and 
long, persistent nurture and encourage¬ 
ment of egotistic, unreasoning self-impor¬ 
tance on the part of the rulers of Germany, 
born of selfish ambition, and fed by the 
forces of degeneracy and immorality, a 
stage of organic delusion has been reached 
by them, amounting to insanity. 

That such insanity is destructive of the 
peace, welfare and moral sense of the Ger¬ 
man people, and dangerous to mankind. 

That, therefore, to save the world 
from further ruin, it is clearly the duty of 
civilized peoples to unite to forcibly over¬ 
throw such insane and dangerous govern¬ 
ment, and thereby enable the German peo¬ 
ple to institute and maintain, instead 
thereof, government and control of them¬ 
selves, and to prevent for all time further 
disturbance of other branches of the hu¬ 
man family by such insane German gov- 


10 Democracy vs. 

ernment, and thereby enable the German 
people to enjoy the blessings of peace 
and self-determination, and without in¬ 
fringement of the same rights of their 
neighbors. 

We have, in this case, to deal with the 
flower and fruitage of autocratic, pagan 
might, developed to its deluded, insane 
climax. The remedy is, first, government¬ 
al surgery, followed by healing, restoring, 
Christian, Democratic civilization. 

There is only one known remedy, de¬ 
veloped in all the history of the race, and 
may God speed its long delayed appli¬ 
cation. 

George Wilson Teitsworth, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota. 


CONTENTS 

Federal World 
SUPREME COURT 
DEMOCRACY 
against 

AUTOCRACY AND SOCIALISM 

PAGE 

I. Complaint. 13 

II. Answer. 19 

III. Reply. 26 

IV. Rejoinder. 46 

V. Sur-rejoinder. 58 

VI. Rebutter. 86 

VII. Sur-rebutter. 90 

Memorandum. 116 

Exhibits (Appendix) . 119 

Index. 124 

SAMUEL DEMOCRACY, 

Freedom, New World, Relator. 

HERR VON AUTOCRACY, 

Servitude, Pagandom, Respondent. 












ILLUSTRATIONS 


PAGE 

1. Statue of Liberty.Frontispiece 

2. Criminal Insane. 4 

3. Washington. 18 

4. Temptation of Christ. 25 

5. Sermon on the Mount. 39 

6. Lincoln. 74 

7. Christ Cleansing the Temple. 79 

8. Ministry of Christ. 82 

9. Wilson . 84 

10. The Beast... 104 

11. The Last Supper. 110 

12. The Crucifixion. Ill 

13. The Resurrection. 107 















PLEADINGS 


I. COMPLAINT 

Freedom, New World, 
Aug. 12, 1917. 

Herr Von Autocracy, 

Servitude, Pagandom. 

My Dear Sir: 

1 . 

Ever since our first acquaintance, you 
and I have had much to do with each 
other. Indeed, our forefathers, as far 
back as we may now trace them on either 
side, seem to have traveled together more 
or less continuously. In work and play, 
in school, in infancy, in childhood, in ado¬ 
lescence, in maturity and in decline of life, 
all the time and everywhere that the human 
race has gone, you and I have been repre¬ 
sented. Sometimes you and your ancestors 



14 Democracy vs. 

have appeared to me and my kind quite 
agreeable and withal useful, and I hope I 
may truthfully say that we, on our part, 
have been more or less helpful to you and 
appreciated by you. I think you will not, 
or, at least, cannot truthfully deny that we 
have contributed our full share toward 
the real progress of the world, and have, 
in truth, overpaid you and your ancestors 
for all you have ever done for us. This 
is not to deny, on our part, what you have 
done or that you have contributed, in 
some measure, to our welfare. 

However, to be frank and entirely can¬ 
did about it, we do not think that you and 
your fathers have always been so fair and 
considerate of us as you should have been; 
but, on the contrary, you have tried to 
domineer over us, and unreasonably and 
unwarrantably asserted, or tried to assert, 
your superiority, and to enforce upon us, 
against our will, authority and control, in 


Autocracy and Socialism 15 

which attempt, during long periods, you 
have succeeded, and, indeed, nearly always, 
to our sorrow, and, as results have demon¬ 
strated, to our great and irreparable in¬ 
jury. 

2 . 

I do not mean to say that in all cases 
your domination has wrought injury only, 
but I do say that it has generally so re¬ 
sulted to us, while you have realized, at 
least for the time being, great advantage. 
While we have worked and worried and 
skimped, and carried the burdens all along 
through the centuries, you have bossed 
and dictated and grown fat and tyrannical, 
largely at the expense of those you manip¬ 
ulated, dominated and rode, generation 
after generation, till of late years, we, in 
spite of you and all the past, have been ex¬ 
ercising, in large measure, our own wills in 
shaping our own course. In this we have 
succeeded, and our success has been so de- 


16 Democracy vs. 

lightful to us, and has so far and so con¬ 
clusively demonstrated that we are right, 
that we are confirmed in the belief that 
you are wrong, and that you should now 
admit it and change your ways accordingly. 
You think, or at least assume to think, 
that you are right, and we are wrong, but 
we think you are selfish and thereby biased. 
3 . 

I am writing this letter to ask you to 
tell me frankly and plainly what you claim 
to be the. truth in the premises, giving fully 
and fairly your reasons, if you have any, 
for I assume that you think you have good 
and sufficient reasons for your action, or 
you and all your folks in the past would 
not have held on as you have. 

Now, please do not allow yourself to 
fly off in a tirade of abuse and rant and 
strut, as some of your fathers have done, 
but get down to business, and give me the 
best you have, and all my folks will re¬ 
spect you the more, right or wrong. 


Autocracy and Socialism 17 

Surely neither you nor any before you 
can claim infallibility, as God alone is 
infallible. That is an attribute He never 
gave to finite man. 

You have such a long record to draw 
from, I surely expect you to put me to it 
to answer you. I need not add, in con¬ 
clusion, that to my mind the subject is one 
of the highest possible concern. Indeed, 
in principle it sounds the depths of human 
life and soul. 

Hoping to hear from you soon, I am 
Yours sincerely, 

Samuel Democracy. 


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II. ANSWER 

Servitude, Pagandom, 
August 14, 1917. 

Samuel Democracy, 

Freedom, New World. 

Sir: 

1 . 

Your super-presumptuous communica¬ 
tion, of date Aug. 12, 1917, has been re¬ 
ceived. While to the kultured mind of 
Teutonic eminence your puerile effusion 
deserves only contempt and scorn, I have, 
nevertheless, concluded to answer you, in 
the hope of your possible enlightenment, 
on a subject you evidently have given trif¬ 
ling, superficial, and, to you, dangerous 
investigation and consideration. 

It must not be thought by such youthful 


20 Democracy vs. 

adventurers in the realm of government 
that insolence with respect to Teutonic 
domination can be treated with forbear¬ 
ance. In the exercise of that sacred pre¬ 
eminence vouchsafed by our super-illus¬ 
trious fathers, and, by design and specific 
order of infinite wisdom, I shall condescend 
to impart to you somewhat of our chart 
and modus in the, perhaps, vain hope that 
you and all inferior and jealous aspirants 
may, in time, lay aside all such visionary 
aspirations as are indicated in your written 
recital. 

2 . 

To begin with, I would have you under¬ 
stand that our imperial and invincible 
government is not a man-made rope of 
sand, dependent on the shifting winds of 
circumstance and d&mocratic interest of the 
governed, aiming at grabbing wealth, ease 
and luxury, irrespective of honor and tri¬ 
umph, but is divinely appointed and 


Autocracy and Socialism 21 

crowned and commissioned of the King of 
Kings, to Whom alone our Emperor is 
accountable. The number and quality of 
his instruments depend solely upon his im¬ 
perial will, and not in any degree on his 
subjects, likewise his methods and meas¬ 
ures. There can be no law but his law. 
There can be no will but his will. 

If you or any other ambitious folk have 
not yet recognized this as a fact beyond 
dispute or recall, beware and look again. 
We recognize no equals or rivals, and the 
eternal law of the survival of the fittest 
is the watchword. We entertain no senti¬ 
mental notion that the meek shall inherit 
the earth, but we firmly and boldly declare 
that the valiant shall determine the bounds 
and status of mankind. We affirm with¬ 
out quibble or qualification that might 
makes right, and they who dare question 
the power of the Teutonic arm to execute 


22 Democracy vs. 

this commission shall be ground to help¬ 
less dust. 

3 . 

Our chart takes no cognizance of so- 
called neighborly or humanitarian senti¬ 
ments. We will to direct the currents and 
lines, and to triumph, in subservience to 
the order of our higher “kultur”, and no 
suggestion of resistance, on the part of 
any, will be met with aught but utter de¬ 
feat and ruin. 

In the furtherance of this design and 
commission, we permit no dogma or illu¬ 
sive presumption or hallucination of any 
kind to hinder or impede. We crush our 
enemies to defenseless subserviency, with¬ 
out regard to previous engagements on 
our part, in form or otherwise, deeming 
the end a justification of any means what¬ 
ever, and without limit or restraint. 

We cherish and cultivate hatred of our 
enemies, among whom we class all who 


Autocracy and Socialism 23 

presume to question our might, which is 
our measure of right. 

We base our position not only on the 
omnipotent Author of our commission, but 
on our demonstrated title to the same, 
which we permit no power to dispute. 

In all lines of human endeavor we hold 
the pre-eminence and the scepter of the 
conqueror, and we propose to maintain 
the same at any cost, even to the destruc¬ 
tion of all opposers. 

You and your kind may pronounce us 
cruel, and hate us, but what of it? We 
care not, nor fear. Why should we? If 
more proof is needed, we are equal to all 
demands. The records and monuments of 
our triumphant genius doubly assure us 
of the utter futility of opposition to our 
will. We will it. Therefore no quibbles 
about justice, humanity, or policy, shall in¬ 
terrupt our progress toward its consum¬ 
mation, and all who neglect or refuse to 


24 Democracy vs. 

acknowledge our right shall be promptly 
and irredeemably crushed. We teach and 
practise hatred of our enemies, that there 
may be no sentimental weakening of our 
purpose. 

Whether you comprehend it or not, I 
have made my meaning clear and plain. 
This is our revered and time-honored Au¬ 
tocracy. The peace of the world depends 
upon the hearty and respectful acquies¬ 
cence, willing obedience, and harmonious 
co-operation in this aim and purpose, of 
all races and tongues. 

As long as objections are urged and 
opposition organized, so long strife, tur¬ 
moil, anguish and, to our enemies, de¬ 
struction, must prevail. 

I am, Sir, 

Herr Von Autocracy. 





TEMPTATION OF CHRIST 











III. REPO 

Freedom, New World, 
August 23, 1917. 

Herr Von Autocracy, 

Servitude, Pagandom. 

My Dear Sir: 

1 . 

Your favor of the 14th inst. received. 
I cannot say that I was surprised at the 
inflated and caustic tenor of your answer. 
Indeed, it is just about what I expected 
from you, and, in truth, it just about con¬ 
forms to the impression I had of the Teu¬ 
tonic mind and heart. I cannot say I am 
wiser now than before your effort. How¬ 
ever, I want to thank you for the frank 
and clear manner in which you have set 
forth your country’s aim and faith. 


Autocracy and Socialism 27 

I shall ignore your slams—to use a bit 
of expressive slang—and proceed to reply. 
I wish to say to you, my dear sir, that to 
me this is the most pathetic situation ever 
contemplated. 

2 . 

As I read and thought over your remarks, 
so clearly revealing yourself and your gov¬ 
ernment, I felt exactly as I think a friend 
of mine felt when his own brother, long 
recognized as somewhat odd and eccen¬ 
tric, gradually became sullen and slowly 
but steadily developed a clear case of in¬ 
sanity of the raving type. My friend, 
though younger, had played with his broth¬ 
er in childhood, had gone to school with 
him, and had seen his demented brother 
in many bright and talented tests of his 
ability, as he was, in many respects, tal¬ 
ented and smart, but seemed to incline to 
ride some hobby, till, as I said, he was con¬ 
sidered odd. But with all that, he was a 


28 Democracy vs. 

fellow whom we respected, and his brother, 
my friend and chum, loved him, and really 
thought he was a genius. He was always 
serious and in earnest, a splendid musician, 
and, as I said, talented. When in school 
he excelled in mathematics, and he deter¬ 
mined to solve the problem of the fourth 
dimension, so called. He spent much time 
on that. Well, he became a raving maniac, 
and was violent in the extreme. Being 
of powerful physique and having had 
much athletic training and military drill, 
he was a mighty dangerous proposition. 
Before the police could round him up, 
which required a whole squad, with arms 
and equipment, he had killed his sister and 
beaten his mother and father, and, worst 
of all, killed his own little boy, about five 
years old, a beautiful, black-eyed, curly- 
haired fellow. In a wild rage he took that 
child and bound him with wire, then held 
him, feet first, in a slow fire, till he literally 


Autocracy and Socialism 29 

roasted him to death, declaring at the same 
time, and after the horrible tragedy, that 
he was commissioned by God to do it. Of 
course I did not see this. I only know 
what my friend, the brother of the maniac, 
told me about it. Having heard of his 
brother.’s insane condition, he hurried to 
the home, arriving there just in time to 
witness the most heartrending perform¬ 
ance imaginable. The wire-bound child 
was held in the fire by his father. The 
screaming mother of the victim, frantically 
trying to rescue her boy, was beaten away 
by her husband. The darling of the home, 
just learning to talk, begged, “Please, Pa¬ 
pa, don’t burn Freddie.” 

3 . 

I need not add that this tragedy wrought 
ruin irreparable in that family. Your let¬ 
ter reminded me of this harrowing exper¬ 
ience. I say frankly that your picture of 
the Teutonic mind and heart reveals a case 


30 Democracy vs. 

of the most pathetic national insanity ever 
recorded in the history of the race. Were 
it not for the horribly tragic results to your¬ 
selves and others, your fantastic boast and 
defiance would simply impress a Christian 
democrat or republican as a huge joke. 
Your imperial strut and threat, “I will 
stand no nonsense from America, after 
this war. America had better look out,” 
is ridiculous. That sort of badger does 
not impress a democrat who has breathed 
the cool, fresh air of freedom and Chris¬ 
tian liberty all his life, and rejoiced and 
prospered under a government which de¬ 
rives its just powers from the consent of 
the governed. Especially is this true when 
four-fifths of the race, with the bulk of 
the wealth and genius of the world, are 
allied against the poisoned autocratic 
springs of such sentiment. 

I notice that you did not offer, nor have 
any of your illustrious fathers offered any 


Autocracy and Socialism 31 

evidence or proof of the divine election 
or appointment of your rulers. You show 
no anointing as such, save by their own 
blasphemous hands. I assume that you 
have no proof, or you would have offered 
it. Your point that your boasted trium¬ 
phant record is proof of divine authority 
is, to democracy, hollow mockery and 
brazen untruth. Why do you insult a 
thinking man with such nonsense as that? 
It is true that your class have done some 
noble things, but it is also true that you 
have done many, many, most disgraceful 
and unworthy deeds which mar your 
record. What great achievement of any 
one of your so-called divinely appointed 
rulers can you point to as proof of such 
appointment and authority? Your reason¬ 
ing from effect to cause might be strength¬ 
ened by exhibits, if you have any. Per¬ 
haps some of the conquered territory you 
dominate may be referred to as your proof. 


32 Democracy vs. 

For an example take your last victim, now 
temporarily in your grip. I refer to heroic 
little Belgium. Will your blasphemous 
finger point to her as proof of your divine 
calling and election? Please go over the 
victims of your unholy ambition and inso¬ 
lent assumption of super-might and “kul- 
tur”, and answer whether or not you have 
stolen and still hold most of your posses¬ 
sions in the same ruthless and shameless 
manner. 

4. 

Look, if you please, to your industrial 
attainments, to which you so boastfully al¬ 
lude. Where did you get the submarine, 
with which you now shamelessly carry on 
your wholesale murder of innocent neu¬ 
trals, including women and children? You 
stole it from a son of democracy. Whether 
you stole it or how you got it makes little 
matter. You have appropriated it, as you 
have all the benefits of Christian democ- 


Autocracy and Socialism 33 
racy, to a super-selfish, Satanic purpose, 
unworthy of hell. You have demonstrated 
that you possess neither morality nor hu¬ 
manity, neither religion—“the life of God 
in the soul of man”, nor good common 
sense. If you had the latter, surely with 
your 155,000,000 ‘‘dupes”, you could not 
expect to subjugate, to your nefarious 
domination, a billiQn and a half of the 
world’s folks, who are allied against you, 
among whom are people that you have 
not the wit to understand or comprehend. 
Little Scotland has given the world more 
light and truth and gifts of genius than 
all your pagan hordes before you, and, 
in your maniacal egotism, you would crush 
her if you could. The sacred words of our 
Lord and Master—“Blessed are the meek, 
for they shall inherit the earth”, you 
have, with insolent and asinine effrontery, 
changed about and distorted so that they 
read, “Blessed are the proud and valiant, 


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Democracy vs. 

the warriors, for they shall inherit the 
earth”. You have denied the Holy Word, 
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My 
Spirit, saith the Lord”, and set up in its 
stead your blatant “Deutschland uber al- 
les” and “might makes right,” and in the 
same breath blasphemously declared that 
you are commissioned by the King of 
Kings. 

5. 

No; No; Herr, you are crazy. Your un¬ 
holy, egotistic inflation struck your heart 
first, and now it has gone to your head. 
Your government needs a surgical opera¬ 
tion, just as the maniac I referred to needed 
such operation. After the skillful Ameri¬ 
can surgeons had removed the pressure 
from his brain and nerve center that caused 
his insanity, and he once realized what he 
had done in his mad delirium, he would 
gladly have given his own life and all he 
possessed to undo the tragic wrong. So, 


Autocracy and Socialism 35 

Herr, when your autocracy is eliminated 
by this cruel war, cunningly planned by 
you, as will be done, and your people come 
to realize what autocracy has done for 
them, and other national members of the 
world body, those left of you will humbly 
discard your creed and gratefully find peace 
and prosperity, following the teaching of 
the Master,Who said: “He that would be 
greatest among you, must be the servant 
of all,” not the master over all. ‘‘Corrup¬ 
tion wins not more than honesty.” Wrong 
is not stronger than right. The false is not 
better than the true. 

Democracy teaches that the rights of 
the smallest and weakest are as sacred as 
those of the strongest. That God can 
raise up from the smallest nation the 
mightiest men. For an immortal Lincoln, 
autocracy would substitute a strutting, 
heartless, blatant Goliath. Well, God will 
place a David’s sling in the hand of a lib- 


36 Democracy vs. 

erty loving, Christian democrat, to fell 

his pompous carcass to the earth. 

6 . 

You are wrong, Herr. You are fun¬ 
damentally wrong. You have wired and 
are burning to death your own sons; not 
one, but millions. 

The cell or unit of life grows and multi¬ 
plies by generously dividing itself and 
thereby becomes two cells, then four, and 
so on in geometrical ratio. The health¬ 
giving, true cell appropriates its own 
proper food and nourishment, and thereby 
builds tissue and completes the structure. 
If it does not so multiply it soon dies. 
This is an inherent law of life. So pos¬ 
session requires expression, or use and ex¬ 
ercise; and every wise teacher and states¬ 
man applies and enforces this rule as to 
talent and endowment of every kind or 
nature. There is the cancerous, destruc¬ 
tive, militant enemy of life and health, 


Autocracy and Socialism 37 
seeking to impair, destroy and feed itself 
by so doing. I say to you in all serious¬ 
ness that autocracy, as now constituted in 
your class, is such a malignant growth in 
the governmental body of the race. Your 
apparent beauty and prosperity is the flow¬ 
er of that insidious demon bacteria, 
spread by your so-called philosophers and 
statesmen, who have taught the rotten 
doctrine, that your will is law, your might 
is right, and that God, the Author of all 
good, has sent you to trample over the inno¬ 
cent and crush out the humble and peace¬ 
ful, by your bigoted, beastly mailed fist. 

Cut it out, Herr. Cut it out with the 
scalpel of truth, honesty and honor of ser¬ 
vice, of helpfulness, of Christian, brotherly 
kindness. Graft upon your political body 
the arm of defense of the weak and strug¬ 
gling, to succor and save and restore to 
health and vigor the deluded, infected and 
despairing, in the name and for the sake 


38 Democracy vs. 

of justice and right, not by force or com¬ 
pulsion, but by kindly ministration. 

“To be great is to be good.” This is 
just as true of nations as of individuals. 
The reverse is true. To be mean and 
treacherous and unjust, is to be small and 
despicable. Be a big brother among na¬ 
tions, not a big robber and double handed 
murderer. If your little national neighbor 
is stricken with pestilence, or, through ig¬ 
norance, is falling, take your strong boys 
and go to the rescue, with your skill and 
equipment. Be a good Samaritan, not a 
Priest or Levite, much less a sneaking, red- 
handed robber and murderer. 

Why does the whole world hate you? 
You say they are jealous of you. Please 
forget that idea. Democracy jealous of 
autocracy? As soon the midday sun jeal¬ 
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will grind to atoms autocracy, but her vic¬ 
tims she, like her Master Teacher, will 
rescue, succor and restore, as brothers. 

Herr, I have said to you some hard 
things. I assure you it hurts me to know 
that they are true, and not exaggerated. 
Why will you not see and act accordingly? 
The Master said: “This is the condem¬ 
nation, that light is come into the world, 
and men loved darkness rather than light, 
because their deeds were evil. For every 
one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither 
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should 
be reproved.” John 3: 19-20. 

7. 

The main business of mankind in this 
world is to develop men and women. That 
is what the Creator manifestly placed us 
here for, not to be beasts and savages. All 
men and nations want to succeed, that is, 
as the psychologists say, they want to at¬ 
tain self-realization. A man or nation 


Autocracy and Socialism 41 

whose acts and conduct are only those of 
beasts and savages, is such, according to 
your own reasoning. You cannot assert 
that your conduct, to which I have pointed 
you, is aught but pagan savagery of the 
worst type. Your attitude of selfish, law¬ 
less frightfulness and unlimited cruelty, is 
savagery and not culture, nor heroism. It 
is paganistic barbarism, and not human, 
nor Christian. 

By your autocratic method of strangling 
the personality and individuality of your 
own people, you destroy the moral stamina 
and religious life of those people. You 
make mere intellectual machines of them. 
This result is demonstrated by the utter 
lack of moral sense or humanity you evince, 
both toward your own people and your 
neighbors. 

When you destroy the individual will by 
any process whatsoever—whether by auto¬ 
cratic strangulation and crushing or by so- 


42 Democracy vs. 

cialistic dependence and atrofying disuse— 
you produce a moral degenerate, or, in 
short, a beast, such as your conduct has 
unmistakably shown, and in the individual, 
many times, insanity. By your long per¬ 
sistence in and general enforcement among 
your people of this method and policy, 
you have developed a clear case of national 
mania of the most violent and beastly sort. 

On the other hand, democracy unfetters 
the individual by placing him largely on 
his own initiative and responsibility, leav¬ 
ing him to work out his course, in great 
measure, by his own choice, and in the de¬ 
tail and exigencies of his life to develop 
his individual will and initiative, before his 
Maker, and in obedience to that divine law, 
implanted in the human soul, the exercise 
and development of which willing obedi¬ 
ence is religion, without which, “life of 
God in the souls of men,” there can be no 
democracy, nor any self-realization. John 
7:17. Psalm 62: 11. 


Autocracy and Socialism 43 

8 . 

It is that freedom of soul which your 
own Hegel so well and so beautifully set 
forth in his “Philosophy of History”. He 
said: “The history of the world is none 
other than the progress of the conscious¬ 
ness of freedom.” I said autocracy is fun¬ 
damentally wrong. It is so because it de¬ 
feats, in that manner, the main purpose 
of human life. It produces things and 
beasts, not men and women. This is as 
plain as the nose on a man’s face. And 
yet, around this proposition have been 
fought all the important wars of the race. 

For this reason autocracy is the father 
of socialism. And if ever thoroughly and 
practically tried, the latter, the spoiled 
child, will quickly run back to his father, 
autocracy. It c.annot be otherwise. There¬ 
fore, democracy is, in its very nature and 
aim, progressive, practical Christianity. 
To be sure, it never yet has been fully real¬ 
ized. But the shadows are disappearing, 
and the dawn of peace and good will to all 


44 


Democracy vs. 

men is drawing near. Your own beloved 
and heroic Luther saw it in mellowing 
darkness. The whole pagan, autocratic- 
ridden world has longed and is still yearn¬ 
ing for it, through the long, dreary and 
chilly night of selfish greed and despotism. 

A man is great only in the measure of 
his service to his fellows, not by the politi¬ 
cal stilts he walks on. His service depends 
on the energy and fidelity with which he 
obediently sets God’s will into operation, 
and in which he places it in control of his 
own, individual will and work, and not 
otherwise. The same is true of every great 
nation. This is self-realization. 

Plato said: “Dream not of freedom 
while under the mastery of your desires.” 
Democracy would amend Plato’s dictum, 
so as to read: “Dream not of freedom, 
while under the mastery of your unholy? 
selfish, unchristian, undemocratic desires”. 
What is autocracy but the mastery by auto¬ 
cratic, selfish desire? 


Autocracy and Socialism 45 

Lincoln said of the great democracy, in 
its dark hours: “The mystic chords of 
memory stretching from every battle field 
and patriot grave to every living heart and 
hearth stone, all over this broad land, will 
yet swell the chorus of the union, when 
again touched, as surely they will be, by the 
better angels of our nature.” 

So, to use the happy words of President 
Wilson, “the world will be safe for democ¬ 
racy” when the angels of freedom have 
touched the hearts of the world, including 
the Teutonic race. 

Pardon me, Herr, for so long and severe 
a letter. I hope you will answer and say 
to me all you may have in your mind and 
heart to say, in reply. The truth should 
always be welcome. It is sometimes un¬ 
pleasant, but “it feels good after it has 
quit hurting”, as the boy said who had re¬ 
ceived a good thrashing, which he knew 
he deserved. 

Yours faithfully, 

Samuel Democracy. 


IV. REJOINDER 

Servitude, Pagandom, 
August 27, 1917. 

Samuel Democracy, 

Freedom, New World. 

Sir: 

1 . 

Your second message of insolence and 
defiant vituperation has been received and 
read with surprise and disgust. 

When the invincible mailed fist of our 
imperial allied powers has made pale and 
limp the forms of British and French pro¬ 
tectors, behind whom American democracy 
hides, which soon will be accomplished, the 
fury of our might will be relentlessly di¬ 
rected to the timely destruction of your 
impious, aboriginal mob and habitation, 


Autocracy and Socialism 47 

arid I am sure, to you it will be no joke. 
The Teutonic dignity and valor will spare 
no time nor means in punishing such in¬ 
sult and insubordination, and in the erec¬ 
tion, over the grave of democracy, a monu¬ 
ment which will be, we hope, a sufficient 
warning to all future generations of ad¬ 
venturers in the field of opposition to the 
Imperial German will. Beware, I say, 
you tattooed, feather-headed visionaries 
of the West. We rule with an iron hand, 
and when your turn comes for discipline, 
the rod will be applied with mighty force, 
and in place and stead of a government 
that does not govern we will erect a gov¬ 
ernment which does govern. 

2. 

I had entertained slight hope that our 
timely warning might dissuade you from 
the further pursuit of your idle dreams, 
especially to the extent of refraining from 
meddling with matters of no direct con- 


48 Democracy vs. 

cern of yours, in the old world across the 
seas. However, it seems that your en¬ 
larged money bags, swelled by your insati¬ 
able greed, and your squatters’ rights to 
domain of large proportions, rich in natur¬ 
al resources, which you are squandering 
with a prodigality natural only to an un¬ 
cultured, short-sighted rabble, have so far 
dimmed your understanding that the task 
now seems hopeless. 

When the time comes in the order of 
our imperial organization of that part of 
our world dominion, that we shall deal di¬ 
rectly with you, the burdens you will be 
required to bear will have a marked ten¬ 
dency to sober your uncouth, over-fed ex¬ 
uberance to something within the limits 
of decent respect for your divinely nomi¬ 
nated superiors, as others, coming directly 
under our imperial control, have exper¬ 
ienced. When that time comes, it is to be 
hoped that your democracy may have at- 


Autocracy and Socialism 49 

tained more of a spirit of subservience, 
and, thereby, expensive and unnecessary 
delay avoided. 

3 . 

I wish, now, again, to impress upon your 
consciousness that it is the divine order, 
manifested in superior endowments, that 
certain personages among every people 
shall be in control. Likewise it is the de¬ 
cree of the Omnipotent that of all the 
races of the earth certain super-endowed 
shall dominate all others. And over this 
super-group one imperial potentate maxi- 
mus shall reign supreme, accountable only 
to the Architect and Builder of the uni¬ 
verse, and such accountability as to time, 
manner and occasion left to the discretion 
of his excellency the Emperor. 

This is the only workable scheme of gov¬ 
ernment. The members of all inferior 
groups, manifestly, of necessity require vig¬ 
ilant, constant, rigid, authoritative super- 


50 Democracy vs. 

vision in all details of life because of in¬ 
ferior endowment. Therefore, the more 
minutely and absolutely this control is ex¬ 
ercised, the more complete and efficient the 
government. And it follows that the abso¬ 
lute and implicit submission of the gov¬ 
erned to this rule results in a high degree 
of perfection of the individual in his limited 
sphere, and, at the same time a measure of 
quiet enjoyment in himself, and in the 
matchless triumph of his imperial chief as 
the head of his country. Thus we have a 
supremely masterful power and harmony. 
It is only rebellion and disobedience against 
vested authority that causes discord and 
unhappiness and suffering. Not only so, 
but causes the further and more momen¬ 
tous result of failure in objective achieve¬ 
ment. For example, compare one of your 
democratic cities with a city of the same 
size built under incomparably more difficult 
circumstances, as they are, but under our 


Autocracy and Socialism 51 

imperial regime, and you have an object 
lesson in results which will convince the 
thoughtful mind of the utter failure of de¬ 
mocracy. In your democratic jumble you 
have dirt, disease and disorder, where 
every one is a law unto himself. In our 
illustrious autocracy we have immaculate 
cleanness, health, economy and efficiency, 
which at once arrests the cultured eye, at¬ 
tunes the trained ear and thrills the wor¬ 
shipful heart. It inspires the intelligent 
mind to thoroughness and victory. 

4. 

It is true, democracy now and again has 
accidentally produced a moiety of genius, 
but it is the exception and not the rule, be¬ 
cause it lacks that disciplining supervision 
necessary to thoroughness, and rather de¬ 
velops a wasteful hilarity and licentious¬ 
ness clearly seen in your mobs, riots, strikes 
and general insubordination and weakness, 
and final failure. 


52 ' Democracy vs. 

The Supreme Architect designed that 
only the few should rule, while the many 
should obey and serve and sacrifice for 
them by compulsion. This is the divine 
order. It is seen in the lesser talent and 
capacity of the many. The supreme endow¬ 
ment shall by will determine the lot and 
sphere of the lesser, and by inherent might 
crush and defeat all objections and inter¬ 
ference or hindrance. Do you compre¬ 
hend? Then beware. 

Does not the caged, trained bird sing 
more sweetly than if free and at large? 
Who cares for the 9 row or owl? It is 
authoritative discipline alone which secures 
that culture which we require, and which 
democracy cannot attain. 

Upon this principle we Teutons, so en¬ 
dowed, will organize and dominate the 
races of the world. It is probably impos¬ 
sible for one who has never experienced 
such culture and development to appreciate 


Autocracy and Socialism 53 
the results to those who have. For thac 
reason the necessary autocratic methods 
sometimes seem severe and apparently 
cruel, but when the fruitage thereof is real¬ 
ized, opposition ceases and harmony pre¬ 
vails. Autocracy specializes and attains 
a high degree of efficiency, while democ¬ 
racy generalizes and scatters, at best. 
There never has been and never can be 
a high degree of culture or efficiency in 
a democracy. Your vehement attack on 
autocracy, on account of what seems to you 
cruel and unjust means, is due to your fail¬ 
ure to understand. It is as if the tree 
should resent pruning, or the child should 
object to correction and punishment. Spare 
the knife, and the tree will bear no fruit, or 
only fruit of an inferior grade. Spare the 
rod, and you spoil the child. Democracy 
says the tree shall not be pruned without 
its consent. This is preposterous. De¬ 
mocracy says the child must not be disci- 


54 Democracy vs. 

plined or governed without his consent— 
equally preposterous. There must be en¬ 
forced authority, in order to attain culture 
and efficiency and strength. You say autoc¬ 
racy destroys individual initiative'and will. 
Obedience is the first requisite of the indi¬ 
vidual, that is, the will to obey constituted 
authority. Will and initiative, in the sense 
in which you use the terms, are bad weeds 
in the garden, and will grow fast enough 
despite efforts to suppress. 

5. 

Take the family for an example: Sup¬ 
pose a democratic referendum were re¬ 
quired for every exercise of authority, what 
sort of discipline would the children re¬ 
ceive? A large share of the people are 
but children in actual development. They 
need a boss, and in fact are unfit to manage 
and direct their own affairs without a su¬ 
perior over them. Consider the utter lack 
of discipline in your American families. 


Autocracy and Socialism 55 
Such insubordination and lack of respect 
for parents and seniors, or the law, or of¬ 
ficers, on the part of children as well as 
adults, is shocking in the extreme to the 
German mind. Not in one case, but gen¬ 
erally is this true. Hence it must be con¬ 
cluded that it is chargeable to the form and 
policy of government. Such lax enforce¬ 
ment of rules and laws as is general in your 
democracy could not obtain at all in our 
autocracy. It would not be tolerated in 
our country, and is not anywhere under the 
imperial sway. Such insolence of bearing 
on the part of your citizenship toward your 
public officers in America, impresses a Ger¬ 
man as abominable and disastrous. It does 
not and could not exist in the Fatherland. 
It is a natural and legitimate result of your 
basic governmental policy and practice. 

As I have said, it is, therefore, incum¬ 
bent upon autocracy, led and dominated by 
our Teutonic super-ability, to correct such 


56 Democracy vs. 

misgovernment. And for the reason that 
under our super-attainments the world has 
been brought so closely in touch, one sec¬ 
tion with another, by telephone, telegraph, 
wireless, rail, water, air carriage, and many 
other features, all sections are now in such 
close contact that it has become our im¬ 
perative duty, for the reasons stated, to 
assume and assert our world-domination. 
We shall not shrink from the performance 
of that duty, so imposed by order of the 
Almighty, Who always provides the instru¬ 
ments for the accomplishment of Hi? pur¬ 
poses. Our Imperial Emperor is mani¬ 
festly such appointee for the present, and 
in the order of nature his successors are 
provided. 

I have exceeded, in detail, somewhat 
the exposition of reasons for our imperial 
purpose, perhaps beyond propriety, to an 
inferior, but have done so only to contrib¬ 
ute, if possible, to the avoidance of other- 


Autocracy and Socialism 57 

wise unavoidable suffering and disaster to 
our enemies. However, it may be that the 
better course will be found to be to let the 
stroke fall, as suffering and punishment are 
good and helpful, and sometimes indis¬ 
pensable in the correction of such disorders 
as democracy. 

I am, Sir, 

Herr Von Autocracy. 


V. SUR-REJOINDER 

Freedom, New World, 
September 6, 1917. 
Herr Von Autocracy, 

Servitude, Pagandom. 

My Dear Sir: 

1 . 

Your favor of the 27 ult. was duly re¬ 
ceived and very carefully read. 

In my reply I shall give very little space 
or thought to your mailed fist stuff, for 
the reason before given, that I verily be¬ 
lieve that your writing and conduct are 
conclusive proof that you are crazy. I 
mean, of course, that your Emperor and 
all his advisers who are responsible for 
your government are insane with the idea 
of dominating the world. It is a case of 


Autocracy and Socialism 59 

monstrous, inflated bigotry, devoid of mo¬ 
rality or humanity, induced by false funda¬ 
mental ideals and teachings, born of selfish¬ 
ness, unrestrained and insane ambition, in 
a corrupt degenerate, who blasphemously 
ascribes his aim and authority to a just 
and Holy God and the Father of the race. 

My Dear Herr: Please do not worry 
about the monument you are thinking of 
erecting over the grave of democracy. I 
am so sorry that you are anxious about a 
little thing like that. 

Let me tell you, Herr, history will char¬ 
itably write across your imperial record 
of treachery and lawless brutality in bea¬ 
con letters, “NATIONAL INSANITY.” 

2 . 

Your innuendoes as to our prosperity 
and Indian contemporaries are not becom¬ 
ing to a people who have made use of the 
light of the Christian civilization your re¬ 
cent record shows. Your boasted claim of 


60 Democracy vs. 

culture, in the face of your monstrous rape 
of Belgium, by alleged authority of a just 
God, only furnishes further proof of your 
insanity. The hypocritical approval of 
such villainy on the part of your govern¬ 
ment, by so many of your supposedly edu¬ 
cated and refined men, only demonstrates 
the infectious degeneracy your people have 
fallen into, as a result of such teaching 
and leadership. If any further proof were 
needed, it may readily be found in the utter 
lack of morality or sense of humanity man¬ 
ifested by your army and navy, particular¬ 
ly among the officers thereof, both toward 
the privates in their own ranks and toward 
innocent neutrals, the conclusive proof of 
such enormities being found in the hand 
writing of your own men, a spectacle of 
depravity such as the world never saw be¬ 
fore. The American Indian, in his crudest 
state, would have expired of shame over 
such conduct, approved by your Emperor. 


Autocracy and Socialism 61 

Your talk of natural endowment and di¬ 
vine order is, to a liberty loving American 
who knows your record and methods, 
blasphemous nonsense. Natural endow¬ 
ment or talent is the gift of God to the 
individual, a sacred trust, to be used in 
obedience to God, its Author, for righteous 
purposes, not for oppression of the weaker 
and less talented; to order and enforce jus¬ 
tice, in the spirit of the Creator, to aid 
and serve, not to hate or crush, or by 
treachery and villainy deceive and destroy 
Your nefarious spy system, utterly ig¬ 
noring social and neutral rights and obli¬ 
gations, violating all principles of diplo¬ 
matic intercourse, your illegal submarine 
operations against neutrals, and your gen¬ 
eral system of terrorism, is conclusive 
proof of cowardice, deluded mentality, and 
utter lack of moral stamina. It is, in the 
nature of the case, not fair fighting, and 
none but cowards and deluded degenerates 


62 Democracy vs. 

will countenance such methods. Instead 
of your Emperor being the man-servant of 
God, as claimed, he has, by his approval 
of such unspeakable conduct, demonstrated 
that he is, in fact, a most infamous and 
despicable imp of the devil. 

Your program is to produce things, not 
men and women. It is to destroy, even 
in your own, all individuality, personality, 
manhood and womanhood, by making 
“dupes”, cowards and slaves of your peo¬ 
ple, and thereby to defeat and destroy all 
self-realization, which is the aim of human 
life. What does an American care for 
your caged singing birds, longing for the 
freedom of the chorus of the countless hap¬ 
py songsters of the forest? Your caged 
bird is a slave, a prisoner. Your citizen¬ 
ship is practically the same. There is no 
such thing as self-realization among a large 
majority of your people. What shall it 
profit you if you do build perfect cities, 


Autocracy and Socialism 63 

while your people are slaves and prisoners 
under a tyrannical, selfish autocracy, as 
they now are and long have been? Your 
system narrows the sphere of the individ¬ 
ual till he is a mere tool, a mere thing, not 
a man, and your rulers, demonstrated 
fiends. 

3. 

A similar result is accomplished by a 
socialistic regime, by which the individual 
is lost and absorbed in the state, with no 
individual ownership, initiative or respon¬ 
sibility. To develop a real man in the 
image of God, as he was created, he must 
be free and independent, owing allegiance 
only to his Creator and to such government 
as he has a fair share in maintaining. If 
the Creator had not designed such a being, 
He had been satisfied with the horse or 
dog or lion. He created man in His own 
image, and endowed him above all other 
gifts with the inalienable right of freedom 


64 Democracy vs. 

to shape his own life, placing within his 
own soul the compass and guide which we 
call conscience. Any other rule or domi¬ 
nation must be by his own consent and mak¬ 
ing and not imposed upon him by force, 
or against his will and choice by another, 
no better than himself. All men were born 
free and equal, not equal in endowment or 
capacity, but equal in the right to act and 
shape and develop the endowment and ca¬ 
pacity they have received, and no man has 
any right to abridge or deny this right of 
another, by any means, without his consent 
or cooperation. Nor can the individual 
ever realize his own under other conditions, 
excepting, of course, in infancy, when the 
God-given parents, under democratically 
instituted rules and laws, administer nur¬ 
ture and discipline. This is so because the 
moral and religious life is necessarily de¬ 
pendent on freedom of choice. There can 
be no moral quality where there is no choice 


Autocracy and Socialism 65 

or freedom of choice and action. Other¬ 
wise the act is the result of the choice or 
will of another. The notion that religion 
has no connection in this matter is funda¬ 
mentally wrong, and a vital mistake. On 
the contrary, it is the controlling consider¬ 
ation. This is democracy. 

4. 

The world can never attain enduring 
peace until this sacred right is recognized 
and scrupulously maintained by all the race, 
nor can mankind otherwise attain complete 
self-realization, which is the full and free 
development and exercise of his individual 
endowment, in obedience to his Maker, by 
his own choice and will. Autocracy ac¬ 
complishes the surrender of that will and 
choice, by compulsion. Socialism tends 
toward the complete voluntary surrender 
of that will, and the appointed means and 
methods of developing the same, to the 
government, manipulated, eventually, by 


66 Democracy vs. 

the few, for selfish benefit, resulting in 
atrophy and degeneration of the individ¬ 
ual will and initiative, and, therefore, and 
thereby, the death of the soul of the indi¬ 
vidual, and consequently of the state. Both 
autocracy and socialism result, unavoid¬ 
ably, in the dwarfing, strangling and de¬ 
feat of the individual, for the selfish, in¬ 
ordinate, corrupting and wrongful aggran¬ 
dizement of the few. 

These fundamental principles obtain in 
all the details, of human life. The auto¬ 
cratic crushing out of the means of develop¬ 
ment of the physical body, works its ruin. 
Likewise, the voluntary surrender of the 
same, for temporary personal ease and 
comfort. The autocratic denial of the 
means of development of the mind, as de¬ 
signed by its Maker, results in weakening 
and failure. Likewise, the socialistic, vol¬ 
untary surrender of the same, for ease and 
comfort. The autocratic domination of 


Autocracy and Socialism 61 

the individual will and initiative, upon 
which depends the moral and religious life, 
dwarfs, chokes and crushes the soul and 
religious life and moral stamina of the in¬ 
dividual, and thereby renders the state 
brutal, inhuman and Godless. 

Socialism, in complete operation, will re¬ 
sult the same, by a somewhat longer but 
no less certain route, because both tend to 
the impairment of the individual will and 
choice, and thereby weaken and destroy the 
soul and religious life, and this is the para¬ 
mount and vital aspect of the whole matter. 
5. 

Democracy tends to the free, natural, 
God-given development of all the endow¬ 
ments of the individual, and, of all alike, 
and thereby of the state, and complete real¬ 
ization, in spiritual harmony with the Cre¬ 
ator. This is religion. It was the evident 
purpose of the Creator to develop the in¬ 
dividual will by the exercise and struggle 


68 Democracy vs. 

for the necessities of life, and thereby the 
development of judgment, and the power 
of correct choice, by experience, along with 
the development of the physical body and 
the intellect. Otherwise the Creator had 
provided man’s living for him, without ef¬ 
fort on man’s part. He could just as 
well have done so had He not designed a 
being in His own image, conscious of his 
freedom. 

Any monopoly or autocratic, open or 
treacherous, underhanded manipulation of 
the processes and means of fair and free 
development, is an unwarranted, wrongful 
and hurtful infringement of these rights 
and principles; and the duty and province 
of organized society, or government, is to 
see that no such infringement occurs, either 
among nations, communities or individuals. 
Hence, international, national, state and 
municipal laws, in the making of which and 
the enforcement of which the individual 


Autocracy and Socialism 69 
should have and exercise his just and equal 
share. The will of an autocrat is not law, 
and never was, unless inherently just, and 
approved and accepted by the governed. 
If not so approved, it is slavery on the 
part of the governed, and tyranny on the 
part of the autocrat. 

The inherent power of democracy, there¬ 
fore, is greater, because it combines and 
amalgamates the will of all the people, 
which is expressed in their law, or rule of 
action. Such expression of will of the gov¬ 
erned is an exercise in itself, tending toward 
strength and vigor of soul, and, as com¬ 
pared with the will of one man, propor¬ 
tionately more accurate and more in accord 
with the divine will, because every indi¬ 
vidual is accountable to his Creator, in 
Whom he lives, moves and has his being. 
Your Emperor cannot answer to Him for 
the acts of his subjects. Only for himself 
can he account to Him for the way in which 


70 Democracy vs. 

he exercises his powers. He should ac¬ 
count to his people, as they to him, and 
does, unless their servitude is so abject as 
to be hopeless. There can, of right, be 
no absolute human sovereignty, excepting 
in the governed. God, the Creator, can 
and does vest each and all His children 
with that right, quite as certainly as He 
does the self-asserting autocrat. Every 
man has a divine right, as true and sacred 
as any other. 

If ever your assumed imperial will un¬ 
dertakes a trial of strength with the united 
and amalgamated sovereign will of the 
free peoples of the race, with their com¬ 
bined wealth and genius, you will experi¬ 
ence a change of mind, if not of heart, and 
realize the true size of your mailed fist 
as never before. 

6 . 

As to your reference to democratic ex¬ 
travagance and waste, my answer is, that 


Autocracy and Socialism 71 
it is a matter within the rightful control 
of the owners, who have produced their 
wealth. As waste and extravagance it is 
incomparable, in amount and propriety, 
with the wrongful and unjust expenditure 
by autocracy, of wealth produced, largely 
by the efforts of the governed, in enforcing 
upon them the will of the Emperor by mili¬ 
tary power, and, when understood, against 
the wish and choice of the governed, who 
produce the wealth expended. Hence, your 
methods would be impossible with a think¬ 
ing and self-respecting people, and can only 
be accomplished by a long process of chok¬ 
ing, strangling and intimidating of the in¬ 
dividual will and initiative. 

The self-expression of the plant is in its 
free and full foliage and fruitage, obedient 
to its Creator. Autocracy is the quack- 
grass in the garden of civilization. The 
normal, true hearted woman finds her high¬ 
est expression and self-realization in well- 


72 Democracy vs. 

bred, properly developed and trained chil¬ 
dren, because of the consciousness of the 
faithful exercise of that sacred right and 
trust, of her Creator. All her efforts and 
energy in life center in this aim. So democ¬ 
racy realizes itself in its true-hearted recog¬ 
nition of the Fatherhood of God and broth¬ 
erhood and welfare of mankind, not alone 
of its leaders and chosen rulers, but in the 
full and natural development of the physi¬ 
cal, mental and spiritual endowment of its 
citizenship, and, consequently, the patriotic 
union of all its members in one harmonious, 
political, national body. God wills it. Au¬ 
tocracy hates it, and hates God and man¬ 
kind, seeking to make “dupes” of her own, 
and slaves of all who oppose, as well as 
her own. 

7. 

Your idea that some are rulers by in¬ 
heritance may have some force because of 
natural, God-given endowment; but what- 


Autocracy and Socialism 73 
ever truth there may be in it should be ap¬ 
prehended by the people governed, and, 
by them, called to service, and in no other 
measure, by birth-right or force. Please 
do not insult the great democracies of the 
past and present by comparing their true¬ 
hearted and noble leaders, so chosen, with 
the stolen-jewel bedecked idiots and degen¬ 
erates issued from autocratic nests. Wash¬ 
ington, Lincoln, Marshall, McKinley, and 
scores of other present and departed heroes 
and noblemen, called and commissioned by 
their fellows, will rise to strike you dumb. 
Please do not understand me, at this point, 
to mean to so characterize all monarchs. 
I only refer to those who have made such 
use of inherited political power and oppor¬ 
tunity. History, to the disgrace of the 
race, furnishes many such, and they have 
not all completed their records or careers. 
There are, and have been, noble rulers 
among autocrats, so called, but they have 


. 



LINCOLN 











Autocracy and Socialism 75 

invariably heard and heeded the voice and 
will of the governed. 

Before you give yourself too much anxie¬ 
ty about squatters’ rights and wasted prod¬ 
ucts and disorder in and among demo¬ 
cratic citizenship, you should compare re¬ 
sults of your long caged and enslaved and 
oppressed subjects with the accomplish¬ 
ments of free men under democratic rule, 
never paralleled or approached by autoc¬ 
racy. This unparalleled prosperity and 
gathering of wealth and power, as has been 
well said, is the “certificate of efficiency,” 
which your autocracy has never matched 
or approached. The generous and benevo¬ 
lent use of such wealth, to which you ob¬ 
ject, shows a fraternal spirit, entirely for¬ 
eign to autocracy. As a matter of fact, in 
the original discovery and mastery of the 
means and forces of nature, (God work¬ 
ing) making for the uplift and self-realiza¬ 
tion and self-determination of the race, the 


76 Democracy vs. 

issue of autocracy have contributed so lit¬ 
tle—it is hard indeed to find it. Autoc¬ 
racy has, in truth, borrowed or stolen from 
the sons of democracy or freedom practi¬ 
cally all such products. Your claim for 
credits in that line is false and fraudulent, 
and constitutes another evidence of your 
moral degeneracy and poverty. This is 
true of nearly all the great discoveries of 
God-given forces and principles. Autoc¬ 
racy and its subjects have contributed prac¬ 
tically nothing to the invention or discov¬ 
ery of the great forces and principles which 
have made the modern world, such as the 
locomotive, the steamboat, the marconi- 
gram, the automobile, the air-plane, the 
photograph, the sewing machine, the reap¬ 
er, the electric light, the revolver, the 
machine gun, the turret ship, the torpedo 
submarine, the cotton gin, the telephone, 
glazing and other chemical processes, all 
of which you have freely used to enrich 


Autocracy and Socialism 11 
and extend your realms and power. You 
got nine-tenths of the poetic and art genius 
you falsely claim from the Hebrews, in 
whose development democracy, in its ger¬ 
mination, had more to do than autocracy. 
I insist that as the racial bearer of the 
Christ, Whose teachings constitute the 
foundation of democracy, the Hebrews, as 
the real authors of your masterpieces, are 
entitled to the credit, and not your pagan 
Hun tribe, from whom you clearly devel¬ 
oped your rotten philosophy, so called. 
(See Appendix.) Autocratically choked 
and dwarfed minds, and morally and spir¬ 
itually poisoned and deluded souls do not 
get into the secrets of the Creator. It is 
the pure in heart who see God, understand 
His works and think His thoughts. It has 
always been so, and ever will be so. The 
just God and Father of mankind has thus 
locked and guarded His gifts and highest 
treasures from the hands of selfish despoil- 


78 Democracy vs. 

ers, who will not do justly, love mercy and 

walk humbly before Him. 

8 . 

Selfishness is the dynamo of autocracy 
-—auto, Greek autos, self. If, in accasion- 
al rebounds from autocracy, children have 
gone to the extreme of disorder and 
disregard of parents and authority, it is a 
demonstrated fact, nevertheless, that the 
aggregate result is so far in advance and 
above that of autocracy that the compari¬ 
son is odious, as already shown. The mon¬ 
strous inhumanity, villainous conspiracies 
and irttrigues, pagan brutality, blasphe¬ 
mous assumption of divine rights, under¬ 
handed, treacherous methods, rotten- 
hearted aims of autocracy, even in the bor¬ 
rowed light of Christian democracy, as 
appear in the program of modern autoc¬ 
racy, never have been even hinted in democ¬ 
racy. Autocracy stands today convicted of 
crimes against humanity which are a dis- 




CHRIST CLEANSING THE TEMPLE 










80 Democracy vs. 

grace to all notions of hell itself, and no 
sane mind can deny it. Nowhere in the 
records of individual democracies or allied 
democracy, with all their imperfections, 
can be found a stain comparable with the 
foul rape of Belgium, with its murder and 
despoliation, together with the ridiculous 
and insolent attempt at a justification of 
the same. 

It is the climax of infamy. It marks the 
end of maniacal autocracy. In the fear of 
the Almighty, the sovereign will of Chris¬ 
tian democracy has sentenced it, and will 
execute that judgment without unavoidable 
delay. The cries of the oppressed, en¬ 
slaved and crushed have been heard of 
Heaven. “Autocracy has been weighed 
in the balance and found wanting.” “The 
wheel hath turned full circle.” 

To the deluded victims of autocracy, 
Christian democracy extends a helping 
hand, not to cunningly entrap and despoil, 


Autocracy and Socialism 81 
but to release the bound, to secure liberty 
to the captive, and a fair chance of self- 
realization and self-determination, as de¬ 
fined. Why? Because they are our broth¬ 
ers, small and great, weak and strong, rich 
and poor, of varied colors and conditions, 
all sons and daughters of the Father of 
the race, to Whom alone belongs power 
and domination. And because, further, 
real success in life, for individuals and na¬ 
tions, as shown, lies in willing, helpful ser¬ 
vice, and not in subjection and servitude. 

Has not democracy opened her doors, 
purses and hearts to all the world? Has 
she not built her own monument in the 
hearts of millions, succored from the tyran¬ 
ny and villainy of autocracy, giving them 
new life, new hope and a new song? You 
may call them a mob if you like, we know 
you. Why do you lock your doors and 
barricade your house with the greatest guns 
and army, at enormous expense and care, 



MINISTRY OF CHRIST 














Autocracy and Socialism 83 

when democracies live peacefully as neigh¬ 
bor nations without so much as a fence 
between them, decade after decade and 
generation after generation? Tell me that, 
please. 

9. 

It has only been found necessary for de¬ 
mocracy to guard and arm against selfish, 
heartless autocracy. Furthermore, the 
only serious internal trouble experienced by 
Christian democracy in the past has arisen 
from the troublesome warring germs of 
autocracy, in larger or smaller measure, in 
individuals and nations, seeking to hinder 
and infect democracy. 

No, No, Herr, the world will never be 
at peace, nor at its best, till the spirit and 
methods and aim of autocracy are crushed 
and eliminated from the race, individually 
and nationally. Whether or not this must 
be done by force, at incalculable expense 
and loss, or may be accomplished other- 


* 



PRESIDENT WILSON 



Autocracy and Socialism 85 

wise, depends on autocracy. It is now 
clearly shown that it must and will be done, 
and that speedily. This is the eternal order. 

If you have anything more to say for 
your autocracy, I shall be glad to receive 
it, and will fairly consider it and reply 
to it. 

Yours sincerely, 

Samuel Democracy. 


VI. REBUTTER 

Servitude, Pagandom, 
October 17, 1917. 

Samuel Democracy, 

Freedom, New World. 

Sir: 

1 . 

Your long-winded, cow-boy tirade re¬ 
ceived. 

As a subject of our revered and invin¬ 
cible Emperor, whom you have so mali¬ 
ciously maligned in all your uncultured ef¬ 
fusions, I had determined to take no fur- 
tneir notice of you or your philippics, but 
have since concluded to add a word to what 
I have already said to you. 

I am convinced that it is a hopeless task 
to make you comprehend the Teutonic 
mind and purpose. It will, therefore, be 
unavoidably necessary, as I see it, to cause 
you and your kind to feel and suffer, rather 
than to understand. 


Autocracy and Socialism 87 

I have reminded you that your govern¬ 
ment, so called, does not govern, and is a 
mere rope of sand. Your aim is wealth 
and gluttonous grabbing of possessions. 
You will sell your souls for wealth. You 
have been and are practicing all manner of 
skin games on your own people, who are 
mere dupes, and enslaved as effectively as 
any people ever were under autocratic rule. 
You prate about your freedom and the 
square deal you measure out to your peo¬ 
ple, when in fact the manipulators of your 
markets and industries are sapping the very 
industrial life of the slaves, who pay the 
price in labor. Your so-called captains of 
industry are no less heartless than the 
leaders are under an autocratic govern¬ 
ment, which governs, only with this differ¬ 
ence, that autocracy maintains an effective 
check on illegal or wrongful practices, 
while your democracy leaves such manipu¬ 
lators to do as they will, in unchecked, un¬ 
restrained gluttony. Look at your organ- 


88 Democracy vs. 

izers and the vast hord of manipulators, 
fake corporations, price fixers, trade mo¬ 
nopolists and natural wealth grabbers, pil¬ 
ing up huge fortunes out of the earnings 
of their slaves, while the latter are fed on 
liberty stuff, and their masters are making 
the laws of your country, to suit their hid¬ 
den purposes. 

2 . 

Some day your mobs will be organized, 
and when their eyes are opened to the 
truth as to how they have been deluded, 
you may have something else to think and 
write about than our revered autocracy 
and our justly exalted Emperor, unless we 
succeed in rescuing you from your fate be¬ 
fore that day comes. Your childish ego¬ 
tism is only exceeded by the effrontery and 
brazen presumption of your President, in 
assuming to indicate what form and sub¬ 
stance of government shall be maintained 
outside his own jurisdiction. Some day you 
will know enough to keep your hands off 


Autocracy and Socialism 89 

what is none of your concern, and to do 
your part where you are placed, and to 
do it as directed by Teutonic compulsion 
and specifications. There can be no gov¬ 
ernment without a sovereign power. 

Your ardent and delusive sentimentalism 
about service and helpfulness is all sham 
and self-adulation, which is shown by the 
fact that your leaders are, and ever have 
been, among the most pronounced and self¬ 
ish grabbers, manipulators and slave driv¬ 
ers on record, while all the time hypocriti¬ 
cally bellowing about freedom of choice, 
initiative and will. 

My advice to you, Sir, is to cleanse your 
own house first, and, if you ever succeed 
in that, you may thereby attain your much 
paraded self-realization and self-determi¬ 
nation. 

I shall pay no further attention to your 
contemptuous communications. 

I am, Sir, 

Herr Von Autocracy. 


VII. SUR-REBUTTER 

Freedom, New World, 
October 20, 1917. 
Herr Von Autocracy, 

Servitude , Pagandom. 

My Dear Sir: 

1 . 

Your favor of recent date received and 
noted with interest. Assuming that you 
have presented the best and, substantially, 
all the reasons you have, or can suggest, 
for your defense of autocracy, I shall ven¬ 
ture some further remarks, which you may 
perhaps be sufficiently interested in read¬ 
ing, though not attempting to give an 
answer. 

As I see the matter, you have utterly 
failed to justify your course on any basic 


Autocracy and Socialism 91 
proposition we have discussed, excepting 
on purely selfish grounds. Indeed I am 
convinced, beyond doubt, that autocracy, 
as maintained by modern autocratic and 
despotic rulers, is indefensible. 

Your claim of divine right to so domi¬ 
nate is shown to be false and blasphemous, 
as measured by methods and purposes. 
Measured by the same rule, democracy is 
shown to have accomplished infinitely more 
for the betterment of the race, although in 
the aggregate, so far, of vastly shorter du¬ 
ration, while all the time hampered and 
obstructed by autocracy. Your recital of 
claims is unsupported by facts, as shown. 
You have falsely exaggerated the mistakes 
of democracy, and paid little or no atten¬ 
tion to the great monuments of success 
pointed out in the records of democracy. 
Democracy has never claimed that sover¬ 
eign power must not be vested and exer¬ 
cised, in order to have government. But 


92 Democracy vs. 

in whom, of right, shall that power be 
vested? Democracy answers emphatically, 
In the governed, under and subject only to 
the Creator. And this is the heart of the 
whole case. Autocracy has always denied 
this right, and has sought to defend its 
position by unspeakably beastly means and 
inhuman methods, many times, and espe¬ 
cially at present, and, at the same time has 
claimed to do so by divine authority. 

2 . 

I have assumed that you understand that 
in the struggle for that consciousness of 
freedom, in certain periods of different 
branches of the race, to whose history I 
have referred, the form and substance of 
their government was democratic, though 
opposed by autocracy and was hindered in 
its progress with the same selfish deter¬ 
mination which is the aim of autocracy; 
and I assume that you recognize the fact, 
which you cannot truthfully deny, that at 


Autocracy and Socialism 93 
such periods all the marked progress of 
the race toward true self-realization and 
determination has been made, and that the 
really great figures and personalities of the 
race have developed during such periods 
as a result of such freedom, and not other¬ 
wise. For example, the Hebrews, though 
not always democratic, developed the first 
elements of democracy on record. You 
may, and perhaps do, deny this. The 
ideals set forth, as the attributes of the 
promised Messiah, from the beginning of 
that race till He came in person and ex¬ 
emplified those ideals, were and are essen¬ 
tially identical with the ideals and aims 
and purposes and methods of democracy. 
You evidently know this, or you would not 
so desperately and wickedly oppose them 
by the mouths of your leading writers and 
teachers, and by the dictum and practice 
of the head of your government, as I have 
shown beyond contradiction. 


94 Democracy vs. 

3. 

I have shown the facts and the reasons 
for the blighting results of autocratic gov¬ 
ernment, on the masses of the people as 
well as on the rulers. That government 
which, to maintain itself, oppresses and 
strangles individual souls and sacrifices 
their rights and culture to its own tran¬ 
quillity, ease and aggrandizement, is like 
a parent who would devour his own chil¬ 
dren. The individual who, by his own 
selfishness, exploits or destroys the social 
bond, is the blind or vicious child who sets 
fire to the house of his fathers. Notwith¬ 
standing your false charges of selfish ma¬ 
nipulation by captains of industry in the 
great democracy, I have shown the elevat¬ 
ing, humanizing and christianizing results, 
or rather accompaniments and methods of 
democratic government, upon its citizen¬ 
ship generally, including its periodically 
chosen rulers. The same is true, histori- 


Autocracy and Socialism 95 
cally, not only of the Great Republic, but 
is true of the Hebrews, the Greeks and, 
in fact, wherever the sovereign power, for 
a time, has been vested in an organized 
people. The great geniuses and benefac¬ 
tors of the race have, as a rule, arisen from 
or under governments of the governed, or 
where there has been a measure of such 
freedom of the individual to exercise his 
own choice and initiative and to have a 
voice in the government of which he is a 
citizen. To be sure, it matters not what 
the name or form, only so the substance 
is there, clear, strong and healthful. Dur¬ 
ing the golden days of Greece, on the oc¬ 
casion of a friendly call upon the king, 
by a representative of a neighbor state, the 
latter observed that none of the Greek 
cities were walled, whereupon the king 
showed to his guest the Greek citizen army, 
and remarked: “There you behold the 
walls of Sparta —every man a brick”. 


96 Democracy vs. 

When every man, to the extent of his abili¬ 
ty, is a true-hearted promoter and defender 
of the welfare of his country, because he 
feels that he is part of its God-given life, 
and in the same measure responsible for 
its acts and conduct, he is, necessarily, a 
man in the image of his Creator, and not a 
mere slave or tool of a self-seeking, self- 
crowned autocrat or despot. 

4. 

I have attempted to show, and believe 
I have proven, that such is the eternal 
purpose of the Creator of the race, steadily 
making for that complete but voluntary 
harmony with Himself which is the aim 
of creation. “The stars in their courses 
fought against Sisera.” “Through all the 
ages one increasing purpose runs, And the 
thoughts of men are widened with the pro¬ 
cesses of the suns.” 

Like all other forms of ignorance and 
evil in the world, autocracy has been per- 


Autocracy and Socialism 97 

mitted by the Creator mainly for the pur¬ 
pose of demonstrating to humanity the ru¬ 
inous effect of wrong and disobedience. 
The Master Himself said: “It must needs 
be that offences come, but woe to that man 
by whom the offence cometh.” Matt. 18 :7. 
Again the Word says: “He causeth the 
wrath of men to praise Him.” Psa. 76 :10. 
It is, therefore, plain that there can be no 
real and enduring democracy apart from or 
independent of dominating Christian life, 
principles and methods. 

The race has had time enough and ex¬ 
perience enough to have settled this vital 
question beyond dispute, and would have 
done so long ago had it not been for the 
selfish, dominating, paganistic spirit of au¬ 
tocracy. Democracy, therefore, demands 
the complete and final overthrow and end¬ 
ing of autocracy, root and branch. 

Please, Herr, do not entertain the fool¬ 
ish notion that I do not understand the aim 


98 Democracy vs. 

and methods and real nature of autocracy. 
“Feel it”? Why: Has not the race felt 
it in all generations, and in this last, pres¬ 
ent-day struggle, do we not smell the fumes 
of hell, at its hands, and from it taste the 
poison of the damned? Is not the world 
writhing in the agonies of perdition because 
of it? Ask Belgium. Ask France. Ask 
Serbia. Ask the matchless, imperishable, 
immortal, self-sacrificing heroes of Bel¬ 
gium, Serbia, France, Britain and Italy. 
Ask your own “dupes.” 

If you were not possessed of an insane 
delusion, you could never make such a sug¬ 
gestion. Such criminal insanity, born of 
selfish ambition, and long persisted in, al¬ 
ways produces such delusion and insanity. 
What is, and always has been, the dominant 
desire and aim of autocracy? The record, 
with few benevolent exceptions, shows only 
tyrannical, inhuman domination by the few 
over the masses, who are reduced to prac- 


Autocracy and Socialism 99 

tical slavery, perpetuated by fraud, cunning 
intrigue, heartless cruelty and force, with 
no sense of justice whatever. The record 
of autocracy, in every age of the world, 
demonstrates this, and the proof in the 
present struggle is final. 

Your autocratic monopoly of lands and 
agricultural products, your collection of 
feudal dues, in the judgment of a liberty 
loving democrat who holds an indefeasible 
title to his 160 acres of homestead, is noth¬ 
ing short of robbery. 

Your abject slavery and degradation of 
women, to the degree of making them 
mere breeders of animals and beasts of 
burden, with horses, cattle, dogs and asses, 
is enough to shock the devil; yet is ap¬ 
proved by your Emperor, and the spoils 
largely appropriated to support your mili¬ 
taristic, tyrannical government. 

Your forceful holding of your workers 
to scales of wages and living so close to 



100 Democracy vs. 

the possibilities of mere existence, while 
your heartless aristocracy, by means of 
your mailed fist, keeps your machine of 
oppression going, is in striking contrast 
with the well-nourished, self-reliant, inde¬ 
pendent, well-to-do democratic worker you 
enviously call slave. The self-made gov¬ 
ernmental guaranties under which they 
hold title, you have the impudence to call 
skin games. 

The captains of such industry whose 
genius and thrift have developed methods 
by which the cost to the consumer of many 
necessaries has been reduced more than 
100 per cent, while they got rich on a share 
of the savings in by-products; which riches 
they have steadily devoted to the better¬ 
ment of their fellow men; such men you 
contemptuously call manipulators, grabbers 
and slave drivers, and at the same time 
you look with fond approval and delight 
upon your leaders who have stolen designs 



Autocracy and Socialism 101 
and inventions of the sons of democracy, 
extorted their wealth from their slaves, 
and furnished your revered autocracy with 
the tools of wholesale larceny and murder. 

The climax of your internal infamy is 
seen in your systematic education of your 
children, from infancy, to quietly and pa¬ 
tiently surrender their lives to such vile 
purpose. 

S. m 

What is the dominant aim and desire 
of democracy? Equality, liberty, justice, 
fraternity, Christianity, or in other words, 
self-realization, self-determination, indi¬ 
vidual and national. It is not and cannot 
truthfully be denied that democracy has 
many times fallen short of its declared aims 
and aspirations. I do insist, however, that 
the aim and purpose is true and correct, 
and, therefore, in harmony with the will 
of the Creator, and that the results are so 
far superior to and in advance of the re- 


102 Democracy vs. 

suits of autocracy that the comparison is 

odious. 

As a result of the wonderful discoveries 
and inventions, releasing and commanding 
the forces of nature—God working—by 
the sons of democracy, in modern times, 
the world has been brought so close to¬ 
gether that it is no longer possible or prac¬ 
ticable for such fundamentally conflicting 
principles to obtain in this world. The 
energies of mankind must and will be en¬ 
gaged in the working out, in detail and 
completeness, of these principles of demo¬ 
cratic government. 

Had your branch of the race, with your 
genius for detail, set about the task with 
your characteristic tenacity, your leaders 
might have made a name and record, to 
the joy and glory of themselves and the 
race, and the commendation of the King 
of Kings. But, alas, alas; Herr, the dyna¬ 
mo of your life is cursed selfishness, not 


Autocracy and Socialism 103 

self-sacrifice and service; domination, not 
helpfulness; driving, not leading. This 
is shown not only by your officially de¬ 
clared policy and program, but by your 
whole line of hypocritical, immoral, treach¬ 
erous procedure. 

6 . 

You held up and robbed Denmark. To 
avoid trouble and sacrifice by your big 
neighbors, you were allowed to do it. That 
was a grievous mistake on their part. 

By cunning and force you stole the herit¬ 
age of your neighbor, Austria. By another 
grievous mistake of your bigger neighbors, 
you were permitted to get away with that. 

Again, by falsehood, treachery and mur¬ 
der, you grabbed Alsace and Lorraine. 
Again you were allowed to fasten your 
bloody grip on what you had no right or 
title to. 

Having thus been filled with the stolen 
meats of your neighbors, your insatiable, 



Froo t*>« XtellM. T«»t* , Mtrmtet Nrw* 


THE BEAST 


Minneapolis Tribune, 3-10, 1918 
















Autocracy and Socialism 105 

insane, Godless, murderous heart led you 
to believe you could steal and carry away 
Belgium, Poland and the Baltic provinces, 
contrary to your sacred covenant to shield 
and protect them. Thus again you have 
demonstrated your consummate infamy. 

Marks of character are the same in in¬ 
dividuals and governments. In many in¬ 
stances God has vested in the smallest and 
most frail bodies the greatest gifts of in¬ 
tellect and genius. Witness: Demos¬ 
thenes, Paul, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Na¬ 
poleon, Watts, Simpson, Spencer. And yet 
your diabolical theory and practice would 
eliminate such physical weaklings from the 
race. 

Since when has capacity and disposition 
for lying, treachery, stealing, robbery, bur¬ 
glary, rape and wholesale murder, such as 
characterize your national conduct, be¬ 
come proof of the right to live and domi¬ 
nate? Who has proclaimed such damna- 


106 Democracy vs. 

ble blasphemy other than your autocratic 
government, teachers and ministers of so- 
called religion? 

I say to you, Herr: If you had any¬ 
where in your governmental system the 
slightest God-likeness, honesty of purpose, 
honor, virtue of aim or intent, you would 
be impelled, by conscience, voluntarily, 
before forced to do so, to release every 
foot of territory you have stolen, and you 
would voluntarily return every bit of prop¬ 
erty you have wrongfully and shamelessly 
carried away from Denmark, Austria, 
Hungary, France, Poland, the Baltics, 
Belgium and Russia. Thus, by sincere re¬ 
pentance and honest restitution, you might 
again qualify for fellowship with God and 
humanity, but never can you otherwise. 

If you need more room you should get 
and hold it by fair and just means, and not 
by such practices as have distinguished you, 
not as super-men, but as arch-fiends and 



RESURRECTION 
















































































108 Democracy vs. 

enemies of mankind. At the time of in¬ 
ternal strife in China, did not democracy 
save China from dismemberment, and 
when fairly paid for the actual damage 
done by her, did not democracy voluntari¬ 
ly return to her the unused balance of the 
indemnity paid by her, amounting to some 
Twenty-five Million Dollars, simply be¬ 
cause it was right and just to do so? 

7. 

In conclusion, please let me assure you, 
Herr, that I have made no harsh or con¬ 
demnatory charge or statement because of 
feelings of jealousy or hatred of you or 
your people. The true democrat sincerely 
wants to see all men and branches of the 
race succeed by fair means and in the only 
way possible, namely, by self-determination 
and realization, as indicated. If any are 
super-men, they will show it by super-ser¬ 
vice, of their fellows and brothers, irres- 
spective of their race, color or natural en¬ 
dowments, because all are the handiwork 


Autocracy and Socialism 109 
of God the Creator and, therefore, broth¬ 
ers. As an individual who selfishly strives 
only for himself is a mean, despicable fail¬ 
ure in life, so a nation pursuing such auto¬ 
cratic, selfish, brute, forceful methods and 
policy with respect to its own and its neigh¬ 
bors’ citizenship, is a mean, despicable fail¬ 
ure as a national entity, hated of man and 
God. Selfish ambition has blasted and ru¬ 
ined more individual and national careers 
than all other causes combined. The Mas¬ 
ter Himself said: “I came that ye might 
have life and have it more abundantly.” 
“He that would be greatest among you, 
must be the servant.” “No man cometh 
to the Father but by Me.” “Thy King¬ 
dom come, as in Heaven, so on earth.” 
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free.” 

Really meritorious ability does not im¬ 
pose itself on others by brute force, nor by 
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112 Democracy vs. 

and lights the way, finding glory and riches 

in the uplift of others. 

As I have said, the dynamo of autocracy 
and socialism alike is consuming selfishness, 
devoid of the spirit of self-sacrifice and 
service, blind to the fundamental truth so 
beautifully stated by the Master: “Who¬ 
soever will save his life shall lose it, but 
whosoever will lose his life for My sake, 
the same shall save it.” Luke 9: 24. “In 
as much as ye have done it unto one of the 
least of these My brethren, ye have done 
it unto Me.” Matt. 25 :40. See also Eph. 
1:9-10. 

With profound reverence I want to say 
to you, Herr, that, to the true-hearted 
democrat or republican, his vote is and ever 
has been the solemn Sacrament in the cause 
of freedom. If he seeks official honor and 
distinction, he will, like the Master, first 
voluntarily lay aside the robe of self-ag- 


Autocracy and Socialism 113 

grandizement and gird himself with the 
towel of service. 

Autocracy is the climax of the spirit of 
James and John before they understood 
the Master and the ordinance He insti¬ 
tuted. They wanted not to serve, but, 
pharisaically, to be served. Willingness, 
on the part of these disciples, to learn and 
to obey the truth, led them, as it will lead 
all, to freedom and glory. 

Socialism is the handy tool of autocracy 
and will lead the selfish, covetous Judas, 
for a few pieces of silver, to betray the 
Master with kisses; but when the honest 
socialist clearly realizes how he has been 
deluded by autocracy, the arch enemy of 
Christian democracy, he will repent in sor¬ 
row and bitterness. John 13. 

8 . 

I shall conclude my letter by quoting 
that great prayer of Walter Rauschen- 
busch—Meaning of Prayer, P. 178, Fos- 
dick. 


114 Democracy vs. 

“O Christ, thou hast bidden us to pray 
for the coming of Thy Father’s Kingdom, 
in which His righteous will shall be done 
on earth. We have treasured Thy words, 
but we have forgotten their meaning, and 
Thy great hope has grown dim in Thy 
church. We bless Thee for the inspired 
souls of all ages who saw afar the shining 
city of God and, by faith, left the profit 
of the present to follow their vision. We 
rejoice today, the hope of these lonely 
hearts is becoming the clear faith of mil¬ 
lions. Help us, O Lord, in the courage 
of faith, to sieze what now comes so near, 
that the glad day of God may dawn at last. 
As we have mastered nature, that we might 
gain wealth, help us now to master the so¬ 
cial relations of mankind, that we may gain 
justice, and a world of brothers. For what 
shall it profit our nation if we gain in 
numbers and riches, and lose the sense of 


Autocracy and Socialism 115 

the living God, and the joy of human 
brotherhood? 

Make us determined to live by truth 
and not by lies, to found our common life 
on the eternal foundations of righteousness 
and love, and no longer to prop the totter¬ 
ing house of wrong by legalized cruelty 
and force. Help us to make the welfare 
of all the supreme law of our land, that so 
our commonwealth may be built strong and 
secure on the love of all its citizens. Cast 
down the throne of mammon, whoever 
grinds the life of men, and set up Thy 
throne, O Christ, for Thou didst die, that 
men might live. Show Thy erring children 
at last the way to the City of Love, and 
fulfill the longings of the prophets of hu¬ 
manity. Our Master, once more we make 
Thy faith our prayer: Thy Kingdom 
come: Thy will be done on earth.” 

Yours sincerely, 

Samuel Democracy. 


MEMORANDUM 
After a long and laborious search the 
conclusion was reached, that it is practically 
impossible to make this showing complete 
and entirely satisfactory in detail. So many 
valuable inventions and discoveries have 
been suggested or made in part by more 
than one person, and at different times, 
giving rise to bitter contests as to author¬ 
ship. As to nationality or race origin, in 
many cases serious doubts may fairly be 
entertained, because of mixing of races 
and changes of national allegiance. 

In presenting this list each disputed case 
has been decided on what seems to be the 
weight of authority, aiming to avoid in¬ 
justice or unfair discrimination. Much has 
been omitted because of insufficient proof 
or authority. It is thought to be by far 


Autocracy and Socialism 117 

the nearest complete and reliable list on 
record, and it greatly strengthens the ar¬ 
gument in favor of democracy. 

At first thought the reader may consider 
unfair such classification as John Ericsson 
as American and to deny Germany’s claim 
to Goethe and Beethoven. The reason for 
such classification is, mainly, that the He¬ 
brews are in a class by themselves, and 
have been since their national individuality 
ended; but with respect to their racial 
identity and adherence to fundamental, de¬ 
terminate ideals and practices, they have 
tenaciously held their own. 

The specially named group of Hebrew 
authors and artists is from Dr. Hillis’ pub¬ 
lished statement. In tracing the origin and 
development of genius the reader will con¬ 
sider it for what, in his judgment, it is 
worth, and no more. 

None but atheists will deny that “The 
nations that be are ordained of God.” The 
critical reader will also bear in mind that 


118 Democracy vs. 

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and 
all the nations that forget God.” The 
Jews rejected and crucified the Messiah. 
He said on the cross, “Father, forgive 
them; for they know not what they do.” 
What, then, shall be said of a government 
that, after centuries of Christian light, wil¬ 
fully crucifies Him afresh, by the torture 
and murder of millions of His brethren, 
to perpetuate and extend a system of slav¬ 
ery and robbery? Can the future historian 
pass a more temperate judgment than to 
write across such a record, “National In¬ 
sanity”? “In as much as ye have done it 
unto one of these least of My brethren, 
ye have done it unto Me.” Belgium did 
not attack Germany, nor did any of the vic¬ 
tims wrong the beast. 

To the careless surface reader, history 
seems hap-hazard and illogical, but the 
faithful student finds beneath the surface a 
logic of events, exact, controlling and in¬ 
exorable. 


Appendix—Inventions and Discoveries 


Antiseptic Surgery 

1863 

Lord Lister 

England 

Automobile Torpedo 

1866 

Robert Whitehead 

America 

Automatic Airbrake 

1872 

Geo. Westinghouse 

America 

Airship 

1901 

Alberto Santos Dumont 

France 

Aniline Dyes 

1856 

Sir W. H. Perkin 

England 

Atlantic Cable 

1866 

Samuel Morse & 




Cyrus Field 

America 

Automatic Crain Binder 


J. F. Appleby 

America 

Artificial Silk 


H. De Chardonnet 

France 

Auscultation 


Laennec 

France 

Analytical Geometry 


Descartes 

France 

Ambulance for Army 


Larrey 

France 

Barometer 

1643 

Evangelista 




Torricelli 

Italy 

Bessemer Steel 

1855 

Sir Henry Bessemer 

England 

Bicycle 

1855 

Ernest Michaux 

France 

Brush Electric Light 

1880 

Chas. F. Brush 

America 

Botany 


Linne—Founder 

Sweden 

Cotton Gin 

1791 

Eli Whitney 

America 

Portland Cement 

1825 

Jos. Asplin 

England 

Cast Iron Plow 

1814 

Jethro Wood 

America 

Cinematography 

1872 

Maybridge-Edison 

England 
& America 

Celluloid Film 

1889 

Eastman 

America 

Chemistry, Modern 


Lavoisier—Father of 

France 

Circulation of Blood 


Harvey 

England 

Chloroform 


Guthrie 

Scotland 

" Introduced in Surg’y 


Simpson 

Scotland 

Canada-Australia Cable 



England 

Care of Defectives 



France 

Collodion Process 


Archer 

England 

Cable, Pacific 



America 

Concrete Steamships 



America 

Cross, Blue 



England 







120 Democracy vs. 


Cross, White 


Archbishop of 
Canterbury 

Cross, Iron 



Double Cylinder Pr’t’g Ps. 


Richard Hoe 

Dynamite 

1886 

Alfred Nobel 

Dentistry, Excellence 


Valentine Hany 

Embossed Printing 

1784 

Engine on Rails 

1804 

Richard Treathick 

Engine for Navigation 

1807 

Robert Fulton 

Engine-Portable Fire 

1830 

Brathwaite & 

Ericsson 

Electric Telegraph 

1844 

Samuel Morse 

Electric Light 

1844 

Leon Fancault 

Electric Locomotive 

1851 

Dr. Page 

Electric Cable 

1866 

Cyrus Field 

Electro-Magnet 

1828 

Prof. Jos. Henry 

Engine-Pumping 

1889 

John Ericsson 

Flying Machine 

1906 

Orville & Wilbur 
Wright 

Fly Shuttle 


Kay 

Fruits & Vegetable Culture 


Burbank 

Gas Balloon 

1783 

Jos. Montgolfier 

Gas-Lighting 

1792 

Wm. Mindack 

Gatling Gun 

1862 

Richard Gatling 

Goodyear Shoe Machine 

1871 

Chas. Goodyear 

Gas Engine 

1877 

N. A. Otto 

Geology 


Hulton—Father of 

Gelatino-bromide Emulsion 


Maddox 

Hydrostatic Test 



Histological Anatomy 


Malpighi 

Iron Clad Steam Battery 

1862 

John Ericsson 

Iron Clad Monitor 

1861 

John Ericsson 

Injection 


Ruysch 

Incandescent Elect. Light 


Thos. Edison 

Kinetoscope 

1895 



1896 

Edison and Paul 

Knitting Machine 


Brunell 

Lightning Conductor 

1750 

Benj. Franklin 

Locomotive-Steam 

1814 

Geo. Stevenson 

Liquifaction &c Gas 

1823 

Michael Faraday 

Linotype Machine 

1884 

Ottmar Mergenthaler 

Lip Reading 



Laudanum 


| Sydenham 


England 

Germany 

America 

Sweden 

America 

France 

England 

America 

America 

America 

France 

America 

America 

America 

America 

America 

England 

America 

France 

England 

America 

America 

America 

England 

England 

Denmark 

Italy 

America 

America 

Amsterdam 

America 


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Am. & Eng. 

England 

America 

England 

England 

America 

Scotland 

England 













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and Socialism 

121 

Malaria, Isolation of 


Gorgas 

America 

Miners’ Safety Lamp 

1815 

Sir Humphrey 

Davy 

England 

Matches, Friction 

1827 

John Walker 

America 

Mercerized Cotton 

1850 

John Mercer 

England 

Magazine Firearm 

1854 

Smith & Wesson 

America 

Moving Pictures 

1895 

Thos. Edison 

America 

Mercury-vapor Elect. Li’t. 

1900 

Peter Hewitt 

America 

Microscope 

1680 

Anthony Van 
Leeuwenhoek 

Holland 

" Connection with Disease 


Pasteur 

France 

Middling Purifier 

Metric System 



America 

France 

Nitrous Oxide 


Wells 

America 

Open-hearth Steel Process 

1866 

Siemens Martin 

England 

Operation on Heart 
Osteopathy 


Hill 

America 

America 

Oleomargarine 


H. Mege 

France 

Power Loom 

1785 

Jas. Cartwright 

England 

Pattern Loom 

| 1801 

Jos. Jacquard 

France 

Photograph, Daguerrotype 

1839 

Draper & Morse 

America 

Pneumatic Tire 

1845 

R. W. Thompson 

England 

Passenger Elevator 

1861 

E. G. Otis 

America 

Phonograph 

1877 

Thos. Edison 

America 

Pivoted Double Truck Car 

1828 

Ross Winaus 

America 

Photography 


Louis Daguerre 

France 

Pr’ts & Reticulated Screen 
Pressure Gauge Whistle 
Panama Canal 


Talbot 

England 

America 

America 

Printing 

1454 

Johannes Guthen- 
berg 

Germany 

Quinine 


Caventon 

France 

Quadruplex Telegraphy 


Thos. Edison 

America 

Reaping Machine 

1834 

Cyrus McCormick 

America 

Revolver 

1836 

Samuel Colt 

America 

Rotary Steam Turbine 

1891 

Sir Chas. Parsons 

England 

Radio Activity 

1896 

Henri Becquerel 

France 

Red Cross 


Physicians 

France & 

Switzerland 

Roll Film 


Melhiush 

England 

Roller Flour Mill 

Submarine 

1807- 

Minneapolis Millers 

America 


1901 

F ulton—Holland 

America 






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Democracy vs. 


Spinning Jenny 

Steam Engine 

Stethoscope 

Screw Propeller 

Steam Hammer 

Sewing Machine 

Shoe Sewing Machine 

Smokeless Powder 

Storage Battery 

Steel Bridge 

Steel Pen 

Suez Canal 

Sociology 

Stretcher Bearer 

Sea Physiography 

Spinning Frame 

Stamp, “Made in Germany” 

Thermometer 

Tubular Locomotive Boiler 

Typewriter 

Telephone 

Telegraph 

Telescope 

Toxicology 

Threshing Machine 

Ultra-violet Rays 
Voltaic Arc 

Vulcanization of Rubber 

Vaccination 

Wireless Telegraphy 


1763 

Jas. Hargreaves 

England 

1782 

Jas. Watt 

Scotland 

1819 

Rene Laennec 

France 

1836 

John Ericsson 

America 

1842 

Jas. Nosmith 

Scotland 

1846 

Elias Howe 

America 

1861 

Geo. McKay 

America 

1863 

J. F. Schultz 

Germany 

1880 

Camile Faure 

France 

1867 

Jos. B. Eads 

America 

1820 

Jos. Gillott 

England 


. t ■ r 

France 


» « 

Comte 

France 


Percy 

France 


Maury 

America 


Arkwright 

England 


Kaiser 

Germany 

1709 

Gabriel Fahrenheit 

Germany 

1828 

Sequin 

England 

1843 

Chas. Thurber 

America 

1876 

Graham Bell 

America 

1844 

Samuel Morse 

America 


Galileo 

Italy 


Arlila 

Meikle—Fame in 

Spain 


America— 

England 


Fin sen 

Denmark 

1808 

Sir Humphrey 



Davy 

England 

1839 

Chas. Goodyear 

America 


Ed. Jenner 

England 

1898 

Guglielmo Marconi 

Italy 








CLOSING REMARKS 


The Germans have contributed practically nothing to 
the invention, discovery or development of the follow¬ 
ing: The locomotive, steamboat, marconigram, automo¬ 
bile, airplane, photography, sewing machine, reaper, 
electric light, tevolver, machine gun, turret ship, tor¬ 
pedo submarine, torpedo, modern grooved rifle, auto¬ 
matic cannon, breach loading rifle, magazine rifle, re¬ 
bounding lock gun, disappearing gun carriage, gatling 
gun, hammerless gun, gun-boat, ironclad, armor plate, 
nickel, artificial ice, cut nails, plate glass, circular saw, 
band wood saw, cable car, electric car, sleeping car, air 
brake, automatic car coupler, calculating machine, cash 
register, steel pen, rotary dredge, typewriter, planing 
machine, electrotyping, electric welding, multi-colored 
printing, steam and sulky plow, rotary disk and culti¬ 
vator, artificial limbs, life preserver, calcium light, gas 
light, acetylene light, kerosene light, search light, flash 
light, safety lamp, safety match, and friction match. 

In sculpture, music, poetry and philosophy, the truth 
is, she is as barren as a last year’s bird’s nest. 

Schumann was a Hebrew. 

Schubert was a Hebrew. 

Rubinstein was a Hebrew. 

Beethoven was a Hebrew. 

Wagner a Bavarian Jew. 

Handel an English Jew. 

Dvorak a Russian Jew. 

Goethe, Zeller, Heine, Kant—Jews. 


INDEX 


Aim (German) .... 
Alsace and Lorraine. 

America. 

American. 

American Democracy 
American Families . 
American Indian . . 

Aristotle. 

Atheists. 

Austria. 


. 26 

. 103 

. 30 

34, 54, 62 

. 46 

. 54 

. 60 

. 105 

. 117 

. 103 


Baltics. 

Barbarism. 

Beast or Beasts. 

Beethoven. 

Belgium. 

Britain. 

China. 

Christ. 

Christian Civilization 

Christianity. 

Conqueror. 

Corruption. 

Cowardice. 

Cowards. 


. 106 

. 41 

... .42, 43, 99, 118 

. 117 

32, 60, 80, 98, 118 
.. 98 

.. 108 

. 115 

. 59 

.44, 101 

. 23 

. 35 

. 61 

. 61 


Creator 40,61, 63, 67,68,69,70, 71,72, 77, 92, 96, 101, 109 


Cruelty. 41 

David’s Sling. 35 

Degeneracy. 9 

Delirium . . .. 34 

Denmark. 103 

Demon Bacteria. 37 

Demosthenes. 105 

Despotism. 44 

Devil. 09 

Disgust. 46 

Divine Right. 70 

Dupes.33, 62, 72, 87, 98 

Emperor.21, 49, 56, 58, 60, 62, 69, 86, 88, 99 

Ericsson. 117 








































Failure. 51 

France. 98 

Freddie. 29 

Frightfulness. 41 

Genius.23, 30, 33 

German Mind. 55 

German People. 9 

Goethe. 117 

God.. 10, 17, 29, 33, 35, 42, 49, 52, 56, 59, 60, 61. 62, 
63, 70, 72, 75, 77, 109, 114. 115, 117, 118 

Goliath. 35 

Good Samaritan. 38 

Greeks. 95 

Great Republic. 95 

Greed. 4 4 


Hallucination 
Hatred .... 
Hebrews . . . 

Hell. 

Hegel. 

Hillis. 

Holy Word . 
Homestead . 
Honesty . . . 
Humanity . . 

Hun. 

Hungary . . . 

Immorality . . 

Imp. 

Individuality 
Infallibility . 
Initiative . . . 
Italy. 

James. 

John. 

Judas . 

Justice . . . . 


. 22 

....22, 24 
77, 93, 95 
33, 80, 118 

. 43 

. 117 

. 34 

. 99 

. 35 

. 23 

. 77 

. 106 

. 9 

. 62 

. 41 

. 17 

. 63 

. 98 

. 113 

. 113 

. 113 

. 23 


King of Kings 
“Kultur” . . . 

Levite. 

Lincoln . . . . 
Luther. 


....34, 102 
. 22 

. 38 

35, 45, 73 
. 44 










































Mailed Fist. 

Manhood . 

Maniac.28, 

Manipulation. 

Marshall. 

Master (Jesus quoted).33, 35, 40, 97, 109, 

McKinley. 

Messiah. 

“Might Makes Right”. 

Mockery. 

Monopoly. 

Murder. 

Napoleon. 

National Insanity.16, 30, 59, 

National Mania. 

Obligations. 

Pagan Savagery.— 

Paul . 

Personality. 

Plato . 

Poland . 

Presumption. 

Priest. 

Prisoner. 

Rauschenbusch. 

Religion. 

Responsibility. 

Robber. 

Rope of Sand. 

Russia. 

Satanic Purpose. 

Scotland... 

Self-Determination.. .10, 

Self-Realization.40, 44, 65, 71, 

Serbia. 

Shakespeare. 

Simpson. 

Sparta. 

Spencer . 

Strangulation. 

Super-Group. 

Superiority. 

Surprise...:. 


46 

62 

34 

68 

73 

112 

73 

93 

34 

31 

68 

38 

105 

118 

42 

61 

41 

105 

41 

44 

106 

22 

38 

62 

113 

67 

63 

38 

20 

106 

33 

33 

89 

89 

98 

105 

105 

95 

105 

41 

49 

14 

46 













































Terrorism. 61 

Teutonic Domination. 20 

Teutonic Mind. 29 

Teutonic Race. 45 

Teutonic Super-ability. 55 

Teutons. 52' 

Victory. 51 

Visionaries. 47 

Vituperation. 46 

Washington. 73 

Watts. 105 

Wilson. 45 

Womanhood. 62 

World Domination. 56 

World War. 5 





































